The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic – ranging from off-channel communications failures to market manipulation cases – demonstrate a consistent...
In line with the current trend towards new vendor launches around targeted data management solutions related to compliance and regulatory reporting, Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) has added a new compliance data checking module to its MIG21 solution. The new module, MIG21 Data Manager, is aimed at reducing data related errors before the compliance checking process,...
Now in its 9th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
The US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL. According to a survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and standards...
